''Love Changes'' is the fourth studio album by American singer

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. It was released by

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in 1987. The album was digitally remastered in 2012 by Funky Town Grooves and included six bonus tracks.

Background

The album includes the hit singles "Love Changes" with

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, "Love Me All Over", and "Loving You Only". Vocal trio

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provided most backing vocals; the track "Fifty Ways (To Fall in Love)" featured background vocals performed by

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. The song "Love Changes" was originally sung by R&B group

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in 1978, and covered again in 2005 by R&B artist

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, and hip hop artist

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Critical reception

Ron Wynn wrote in his retrospective review for

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: "Kashif went the duet route on this late '80s release, working with both

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and

and doing relatively well both times ..The album was otherwise as slick and overproduced as ever, and his singing went back to the subdued patterns of earlier works."

Track listing

All tracks produced by Kashif; except "Who's Getting Serious?," produced by

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and Kashif.

Personnel

* Kashif – lead vocals (1-4, 6-10), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9), keyboards (1-7, 9, 10),

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(2, 3), percussion (2, 3, 6, 9, 10), rhythm arrangements (2, 4, 7, 9), synthesizers (4, 7, 9), programming (4), bass (4, 6, 10), drums (4, 6, 9, 10), all vocals (5) *

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– programming (1), synthesizer programming (9) * Eric Rehl – keyboards (2), bass (2), drums (2), rhythm arrangements (2) * Darroll Gustamachio – Synclavier vocal programming (2) * Robbie Buchanan – keyboards (3, 5), synthesizers (4), programming (4) *

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– acoustic piano (4),

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(4), synthesizers (4, 9), backing vocals (4), keyboards (9) * Mike Bakst – keyboards (8), percussion programming (8) *

– keyboards (8), percussion programming (8) * Ira Siegel – guitars (2, 6, 7, 10) *

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– guitars (3, 4, 9) * Nestor Gomez – guitars (8) * Wayne Braithwaite – bass (1) *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degr ...

– bass (3, 9) *

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– drums (1, 3, 4, 5, 8), percussion (5) *

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– percussion (2, 9) *

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– soprano sax solo (5), alto saxophone (7) *

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– saxophone (6) *

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– horn and string arrangements (3, 4, 7, 9), conductor (3, 4, 7, 9) *

– lead and backing vocals (1) * Yogi Lee – additional backing vocals (1, 2), backing vocals (3, 4, 9, 10) * Audrey Wheeler – additional backing vocals (1), backing vocals (4) * Brenda White – additional backing vocals (1), backing vocals (4) *

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– rap (2),

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(2) *

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– backing vocals (3) *

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– backing vocals (4, 10), additional backing vocals (8) *

– backing vocals (6) * Cliff Dawson – backing vocals (7), rhythm arrangements (7) *

– backing vocals (8) *

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– additional backing vocals (8) * Michelle Cobbs – additional backing vocals (8), backing vocals (10) *

– lead and backing vocals (9) * Philip Ballou – backing vocals (10) * Suzanne Slaughter – backing vocals (10) Technical and Design * Darroll Gustamachio – engineer (1-7, 9), mixing (1-7, 9, 10), additional engineer (8) * Michael O'Reilly – engineer (1), mixing (1, 3, 8, 10) * Lewis Martineé – engineer (8) * Mike Couzzi – engineer (8) * Kurt Upper – engineer (10) * Dennis Mitchell – additional engineer (1), engineer (10) * Russ Terrana – additional engineer (3, 4, 5, 7, 9) * John Guess – additional engineer (8) * Calvin Harris – additional engineer (9) * Alan Gregorie – assistant engineer (1) * Bob Loftus – assistant engineer (1, 9) * Steve MacMillan – assistant engineer (1, 9) * Craig Vogel – assistant engineer (2) * Roger Talkov – assistant engineer (2) * Michael Dotson – assistant engineer (3, 4, 7) * Michael C. Ross – assistant engineer (3, 4) * Larry Smith – assistant engineer (4, 9) * Karen Siegel – assistant engineer (8) * John Dranchak – assistant engineer (9) * Steve James – assistant engineer (9) * Adrian Salley – production coordinator * Russell Sidelsky – production coordinator * Mark Larson – art direction * Ann Petter – design *

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– photography

Charts

References

External links

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